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The Paul Tripp Podcast

919. What Is Your Screen Time Average? | Ask Paul Tripp

The Paul Tripp Podcast

Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

5723 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Ask Paul Tripp, a weekly podcast from Paul Tripp Ministries where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp answers your questions, connecting the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Today, Paul shares how he navigates life with his phone and other digital devices—and how he stays grounded in a world full of distractions.

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0:00.0

Well, I have a question for you today, Paul, that I would be embarrassed to answer publicly myself,

0:08.4

so I'm glad this is called Ask Paul Tripp.

0:11.9

What is your screen time average?

0:14.2

But I'm not actually going to ask you to go into the settings on your iPhone and disclose

0:18.2

that proprietary information.

0:20.0

So how about this instead? What is your relationship with your iPhone and disclose that proprietary information. So how about this instead?

0:21.7

What is your relationship with your iPhone or iPad or laptop?

0:26.9

The struggles as well as the helpful ways you seek to use it?

0:30.6

And then what are some habits or guardrails that you use to limit your addiction to your

0:34.9

screen?

0:35.9

And then another question that we got pertaining to the subject.

0:39.3

What do you do to remain embodied in the offline physical real world?

0:45.3

Well, of course, like every other modern human being,

0:51.3

I struggle not to fall into believing that I need to be in constant contact with the world around me

1:00.0

to the powerful media machine that I have in my pocket or on my desk.

1:04.0

It's just such a delusion.

1:09.0

You know, I'm old enough to remember It's just such a delusion.

1:24.8

You know, I'm old enough to remember that my contact with the world was the newspaper in the morning and the evening news at 6.30.

1:38.1

And we just don't need the constant contact with whatever that we think we need. In terms of my screen time average, I mean it's off the charts because I do everything.

1:47.3

From my devotional time to my writing, to my preparation, research is all done on my iPad.

2:00.3

And so other than when my my brain is totally drained I'm I'm on that thing now for

2:12.8

that I'm very thankful I mean it's just amazing to me that I'll be writing a chapter of book and I have a

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